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by **Craig Barn** » Sun, 11 Sep 1994 08:49:50

I friend of mine managed to use the tar cf comamnd when he wanted to
do a tar xf. He stopped it when he realized what he had done
but obviously tar now doesn't believe the file is there.
Is there anyway to extract, at least partially, the contents of
the tape? Perhaps with dd?

Thanks,

Craig Barnes

by **Susan Wrightson Ko** » Tue, 13 Sep 1994 22:36:37

>Subject: getting a tar file off a tape when you've tar cf'ed first
>Date: 9 Sep 1994 23:49:50 GMT
>I friend of mine managed to use the tar cf comamnd when he wanted to
>do a tar xf. He stopped it when he realized what he had done
>but obviously tar now doesn't believe the file is there.
>Is there anyway to extract, at least partially, the contents of
>the tape? Perhaps with dd?
>Thanks,
>Craig Barnes

Well, if he has already overwritten the file he wanted, there is not
much he can do. He can do a "tar tvf > /tmp/<file>" to see if the file
he wants is still listed. That is, if he didn't overwrite the whole
tape.

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